Bill Text: NY A02483 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the inclusion of suicide prevention resources to be provided with a warrant of eviction, including the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and the applicable Suicide Crisis telephone number as provided by the Office of Mental Health.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-17 - referred to judiciary [A02483 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A02483-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2483

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2025
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. DINOWITZ, TAPIA, SIMON, RAGA -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Judiciary

        AN ACT to amend the  real  property  actions  and  proceedings  law,  in
          relation to requiring the inclusion of suicide prevention resources to
          be provided with a  warrant of eviction

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 749 of the real  property  actions
     2  and proceedings law, as amended by section 19 of part M of chapter 36 of
     3  the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
     4    1. (a) Upon rendering a final judgment for petitioner, the court shall
     5  issue  a warrant directed to the sheriff of the county or to any consta-
     6  ble or marshal of the city in which the property, or a portion  thereof,
     7  is  situated,  or,  if it is not situated in a city, to any constable of
     8  any town in the county, describing the property,  stating  the  earliest
     9  date  upon which execution may occur pursuant to the order of the court,
    10  and commanding the officer to remove all persons named in  the  proceed-
    11  ing,  provided  upon a showing of good cause, the court may issue a stay
    12  of re-letting or renovation of the premises for a reasonable  period  of
    13  time.
    14    (b)  A  warrant  issued  under  this article shall include information
    15  regarding suicide prevention resources in clear, bold face  type  of  no
    16  less  than  fourteen-point  in size. Such information shall include, but
    17  not be limited to, the National  Suicide  Prevention  Lifeline  and  the
    18  applicable  Suicide  Crisis telephone number as provided by the New York
    19  State Office of Mental Health. Such information shall be provided to the
    20  person or persons to be evicted or dispossessed at the  time  notice  is
    21  served as provided in subdivision two of this section.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    23  it shall have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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